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Feddes, David J.

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Missionary apologists to the post-Christendom West: A comparison of C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Missionary apologists to the post-Christendom West: A comparison of C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin./
Author:	Feddes, David J.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Harold A. Netland.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3308214
ISBN:	9780549547501

Missionary apologists to the post-Christendom West: A comparison of C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin.
Feddes, David J.

Missionary apologists to the post-Christendom West: A comparison of C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin. - 384 p.

Adviser: Harold A. Netland.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trinity International University, 2008.

This dissertation offers case studies of two missionary apologists, C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin, focusing on the nature and role of plausibility and rationality in each author's cultural diagnosis and missionary prescription for the post-Christendom West.

ISBN: 9780549547501Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Missionary apologists to the post-Christendom West: A comparison of C. S. Lewis and Lesslie Newbigin.
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520 $a From their respective contexts in twentieth century Britain, Lewis and Newbigin viewed the West as a mission field and addressed issues of epistemology and apologetics. Each author discussed Europe's past Christendom and the impact of modernization. Such matters remain important for missiology.
520 $a Lewis and Newbigin perceived developments in their British context that challenged Christian plausibility. Three key trends were: declining church involvement and Christian belief, shifting sexual attitudes, and growing religious diversity. Five influential institutions they discussed were: school, home, media, government, and church.
520 $a Lewis diagnosed impediments to Christianity among intelligent proletarians and intellectual elites. He strove against naturalism (materialist or pantheist). As a critical realist, Lewis's epistemological observations dealt with logical and moral reason; metaphor, imagination, and myth; virtue-dependent knowing; authority, tradition, and Scripture; and constructs and reality. As a cumulative case apologist, Lewis sought to make Christianity plausible and personal. He undermined bogus certitudes, influenced plausibility structures, translated Christianity for specific audiences, offered direct arguments, compared worldviews, and emphasized the logic of personal relations.
520 $a Newbigin opposed scientism and religious pluralism as manifestations of imperialistic modernization that produced unhealthy dichotomies and lured Western churches into syncretism. He blamed the epistemology of Descartes and the Enlightenment, which idolized and depersonalized reason. Newbigin responded with an epistemology of personal knowledge for both science and theology, stressing the social construction of knowledge and the role of presuppositions. Denouncing traditional apologetics, he portrayed conversion as a paradigm shift and insisted that the starting point of Christian witness must be God's revelation in Christ, as rendered in Scripture and the church community's ongoing conversation and public witness.
520 $a A comparison and evaluation of Lewis's and Newbigin's views shows both thinkers accepting critical realism and incorporating some insights associated with postmodernism, while repudiating irrationalism and relativism. Lewis provided more nuanced cultural analysis and more constructive apologetic tactics than Newbigin. A union of presuppositional and evidential apologetics is recommended.
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